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SUFFOLK Within the Temple-hall we were too loud; The garden here is more convenient. PLANTAGENET Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth; Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error? SUFFOLK Faith, I have been a truant in the law, And never yet could frame my will to it; And therefore frame the law unto my will. ... SUFFOLK I pluck this red rose with young Somerset And say withal I think he ...

2018-02-19 08:42

SUFFOLK

Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;
The garden here is more convenient.

PLANTAGENET

Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;
Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?

SUFFOLK

Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it;
And therefore frame the law unto my will.

...

SUFFOLK

I pluck this red rose with young Somerset
And say withal I think he held the right.

...

SUFFOLK

Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.

..................

SUFFOLK

Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,
As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.
Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king and realm.

CRESSIDA Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. That she beloved knows nought that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is: That she was never yet t...

2018-02-19 02:22

CRESSIDA

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise;
But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
That she was never yet that ever knew
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:
Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.

PANDARUS Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date in the pie, for then the man's date's out.

2018-02-19 01:48

PANDARUS

Do you know what a man is? Is not
birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,
learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,
and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?

CRESSIDA

Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date
in the pie, for then the man's date's out.

以下节选自Introduction部分: In essence, the Trojan War is nothing but a sordid, age-old marital quarrel into which others have been drawn; it is the stuff of comedy, not epic. For Shakespeare, the legacy of the Iliad appears to have been more dubious than inspiring. Troilus and Cressida questions the herioc legend of the Trojan War and strips its leading characters of their legendary charisma, ...

2018-02-18 10:49

以下节选自Introduction部分: In essence, the Trojan War is nothing but a sordid, age-old marital quarrel into which others have been drawn; it is the stuff of comedy, not epic. For Shakespeare, the legacy of the Iliad appears to have been more dubious than inspiring. Troilus and Cressida questions the herioc legend of the Trojan War and strips its leading characters of their legendary charisma, revealing an often shameful although humanly recognizable underlying reality. Shakespeare particularly questions whether the opposed parties to the war represent opposed civilizations, on whose respective victory or defeat the future of the world depends. A strong impulse of skeptical exposure is thus present in Troilus and Cressida. The play even allows us to witness the birth of a legend.

It may seem surprising to us that Shakespeare, living in a different and, we tend to believe, less disillusioned era than our own, sees through the heroics of the Trojan War. We tend to think of the twentieth century as a time of unprecedented historical disillusionment. Repeated, searing experiences of military catasrtophe, genocide, political corruption, abusive sexual and racial politics, and collapsing ideals have resulted in forms of disbelief that have often been regarded as belonging peculiarly to the twentieth century. Yet Shakespeare's play demystifies the Trojan War with a critical energy that the twentieth century barely equaled.

Historical scholars have connected Shakespeare's writing of the play to a variety of contemporary circumstances. These include a disillusioned turning against earlier chivalric ideals and military heroism in the late days of Elizabeth I's reign. One specific source of disillusionment was the fall of the Earl of Essex...The turbulent and not always courteous Essex helped make visible just how acutely problematic the high Elizabethan code of chivalry and military heroism had become by the end of the 1590s. Also rendered questionable were the poetic genres of epic and romance, on which so much Elizabethan cultural and political life had been modeled.

Hector's murder by the followers of Achilles...seemingly brings the epic romance of Troy to a definitive close. Hector is helplessly imprisoned by Trojan "honor."

PANDARUS Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date in the pie, for then the man's date's out.

2018-02-19 01:48

PANDARUS

Do you know what a man is? Is not
birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,
learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,
and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?

CRESSIDA

Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date
in the pie, for then the man's date's out.

CRESSIDA Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. That she beloved knows nought that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is: That she was never yet t...

2018-02-19 02:22

CRESSIDA

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise;
But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
That she was never yet that ever knew
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:
Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.

SUFFOLK Within the Temple-hall we were too loud; The garden here is more convenient. PLANTAGENET Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth; Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error? SUFFOLK Faith, I have been a truant in the law, And never yet could frame my will to it; And therefore frame the law unto my will. ... SUFFOLK I pluck this red rose with young Somerset And say withal I think he ...

2018-02-19 08:42

SUFFOLK

Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;
The garden here is more convenient.

PLANTAGENET

Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;
Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?

SUFFOLK

Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it;
And therefore frame the law unto my will.

...

SUFFOLK

I pluck this red rose with young Somerset
And say withal I think he held the right.

...

SUFFOLK

Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.

..................

SUFFOLK

Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,
As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.
Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king and realm.

以下节选自Introduction部分: In essence, the Trojan War is nothing but a sordid, age-old marital quarrel into which others have been drawn; it is the stuff of comedy, not epic. For Shakespeare, the legacy of the Iliad appears to have been more dubious than inspiring. Troilus and Cressida questions the herioc legend of the Trojan War and strips its leading characters of their legendary charisma, ...

2018-02-18 10:49

以下节选自Introduction部分: In essence, the Trojan War is nothing but a sordid, age-old marital quarrel into which others have been drawn; it is the stuff of comedy, not epic. For Shakespeare, the legacy of the Iliad appears to have been more dubious than inspiring. Troilus and Cressida questions the herioc legend of the Trojan War and strips its leading characters of their legendary charisma, revealing an often shameful although humanly recognizable underlying reality. Shakespeare particularly questions whether the opposed parties to the war represent opposed civilizations, on whose respective victory or defeat the future of the world depends. A strong impulse of skeptical exposure is thus present in Troilus and Cressida. The play even allows us to witness the birth of a legend.

It may seem surprising to us that Shakespeare, living in a different and, we tend to believe, less disillusioned era than our own, sees through the heroics of the Trojan War. We tend to think of the twentieth century as a time of unprecedented historical disillusionment. Repeated, searing experiences of military catasrtophe, genocide, political corruption, abusive sexual and racial politics, and collapsing ideals have resulted in forms of disbelief that have often been regarded as belonging peculiarly to the twentieth century. Yet Shakespeare's play demystifies the Trojan War with a critical energy that the twentieth century barely equaled.

Historical scholars have connected Shakespeare's writing of the play to a variety of contemporary circumstances. These include a disillusioned turning against earlier chivalric ideals and military heroism in the late days of Elizabeth I's reign. One specific source of disillusionment was the fall of the Earl of Essex...The turbulent and not always courteous Essex helped make visible just how acutely problematic the high Elizabethan code of chivalry and military heroism had become by the end of the 1590s. Also rendered questionable were the poetic genres of epic and romance, on which so much Elizabethan cultural and political life had been modeled.

Hector's murder by the followers of Achilles...seemingly brings the epic romance of Troy to a definitive close. Hector is helplessly imprisoned by Trojan "honor."

SUFFOLK Within the Temple-hall we were too loud; The garden here is more convenient. PLANTAGENET Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth; Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error? SUFFOLK Faith, I have been a truant in the law, And never yet could frame my will to it; And therefore frame the law unto my will. ... SUFFOLK I pluck this red rose with young Somerset And say withal I think he ...

2018-02-19 08:42

SUFFOLK

Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;
The garden here is more convenient.

PLANTAGENET

Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;
Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?

SUFFOLK

Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it;
And therefore frame the law unto my will.

...

SUFFOLK

I pluck this red rose with young Somerset
And say withal I think he held the right.

...

SUFFOLK

Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.

..................

SUFFOLK

Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,
As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,
With hope to find the like event in love,
But prosper better than the Trojan did.
Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
But I will rule both her, the king and realm.

CRESSIDA Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. That she beloved knows nought that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is: That she was never yet t...

2018-02-19 02:22

CRESSIDA

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise;
But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
That she was never yet that ever knew
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:
Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.

PANDARUS Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? CRESSIDA Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date in the pie, for then the man's date's out.

2018-02-19 01:48

PANDARUS

Do you know what a man is? Is not
birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,
learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,
and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?

CRESSIDA

Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date
in the pie, for then the man's date's out.

以下节选自Introduction部分: In essence, the Trojan War is nothing but a sordid, age-old marital quarrel into which others have been drawn; it is the stuff of comedy, not epic. For Shakespeare, the legacy of the Iliad appears to have been more dubious than inspiring. Troilus and Cressida questions the herioc legend of the Trojan War and strips its leading characters of their legendary charisma, ...

2018-02-18 10:49

以下节选自Introduction部分: In essence, the Trojan War is nothing but a sordid, age-old marital quarrel into which others have been drawn; it is the stuff of comedy, not epic. For Shakespeare, the legacy of the Iliad appears to have been more dubious than inspiring. Troilus and Cressida questions the herioc legend of the Trojan War and strips its leading characters of their legendary charisma, revealing an often shameful although humanly recognizable underlying reality. Shakespeare particularly questions whether the opposed parties to the war represent opposed civilizations, on whose respective victory or defeat the future of the world depends. A strong impulse of skeptical exposure is thus present in Troilus and Cressida. The play even allows us to witness the birth of a legend.

It may seem surprising to us that Shakespeare, living in a different and, we tend to believe, less disillusioned era than our own, sees through the heroics of the Trojan War. We tend to think of the twentieth century as a time of unprecedented historical disillusionment. Repeated, searing experiences of military catasrtophe, genocide, political corruption, abusive sexual and racial politics, and collapsing ideals have resulted in forms of disbelief that have often been regarded as belonging peculiarly to the twentieth century. Yet Shakespeare's play demystifies the Trojan War with a critical energy that the twentieth century barely equaled.

Historical scholars have connected Shakespeare's writing of the play to a variety of contemporary circumstances. These include a disillusioned turning against earlier chivalric ideals and military heroism in the late days of Elizabeth I's reign. One specific source of disillusionment was the fall of the Earl of Essex...The turbulent and not always courteous Essex helped make visible just how acutely problematic the high Elizabethan code of chivalry and military heroism had become by the end of the 1590s. Also rendered questionable were the poetic genres of epic and romance, on which so much Elizabethan cultural and political life had been modeled.

Hector's murder by the followers of Achilles...seemingly brings the epic romance of Troy to a definitive close. Hector is helplessly imprisoned by Trojan "honor."